September 25, 2020/United Capital Report A few days ago, the republic of Zambia became the first country in Africa to default on a debt in the wake of COVID-19. This was as the country’s ministry of finance announced a consent of solicitation to suspend interest payment (worth $120.0mn) on its […]

September 24, 2020/Aetoswire Africa Finance Corporation (“AFC” or “the Corporation”), the leading infrastructure solutions provider in Africa, today announces the successful issuance of its inaugural CHF150 Million Reg S senior unsecured benchmark Green Bond (the “Bond”) under the Corporation’s US$5 Billion Global Medium-Term Note (“GMTN”) programme , maturing 2025 (“the […]

September 24, 2020/IMFBlog By Dora Iakova, Alfred Kammer, and James Roaf Last week, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen made an ambitious proposal. By 2030, the European Union would aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent below their 1990 levels. And this is […]